Front Lines Communications

[backdated to immediately after this and prior to The Maker’s manifesto -- A log is forthcoming!]

As you all know, since the death of Corrine Harper we’ve been on the hunt for her daughter Madison and her husband Malcolm. Today I received reliable intelligence that the person responsible for Times Square as well as incidents with Shep and Aphra is Madison Harper herself. We are certain of this.

The Project is also aware of this update.

This is [...] unexpected and disturbing, and I think it’s important that we discuss what we do with this information.


[MAL Leadership]
Mae’s remembering things more slowly than us, but she finally remembered Madison and found physical evidence of their friendship to support these memories. She now recognizes that it was Madison who caused her powers incident in Times Square.

It’s also important to note that Nero was actively interested in this information being passed on to us.

"Those who oppose us will be crushed beneath our feet as infidels."




Okay first of all what in the everloving fuck

[SUYIN]

As soon as I'm done boxing my shit up I'm leaving

I never thought I'd ever wake up to 30 texts asking me if I had joined a supremacist cult.

( [Greenwich folks @ 31 Whitehall] )

Parvaneh Shahidi of Project: Ascension, who 'discovered' and named it, believes atavism explains the tales of gods and heroes in ancient myth.

Not meanin to split hairs, here, but she weren't the only one who 'discovered' and named it.

Isn’t this a week of revelations?

N. VAZIRI

We need to talk.

A. HART

Remind me the circumstances of your incident.

R. BUENO

Remind me the circumstances of your incident.

TEXT TO: S. SOUTHWICK

[1] So this is what you’ve been up to.

TEXT TO: J. GALLOWAY

[1] Don’t.

I know we usually save those spots for people who've been outed and on-the-run, but given the sudden increase of Kool-Aid at my current address, it cool if I crash in one of the safehouses?

I don't care where, I'm willing to sleep on a cot in a basement, I'm just getting out of here before they break out the robes and animal masks.

omg i go to california for ONE WEEK and i come back and everything's gone NUTS

first, all this baseline control
then this maker? wtf they didn't make me 😤

[ The Way ]

I was expecting hysterics, but this is something else.

As a recent atavist myself, I find it immensely comforting to know there is a third party whose overriding purpose is to gather those of us who have been given the Light into one community -- one single family that doesn't want to tear itself apart in the way that the Project and the MAL seem intent on doing. The Maker's statement certainly wasn't something that inspired fear when I read it.

Anyway, hello, I'm Oscar Summers. Lawyer and curious about this strange new world of ours.

[ PROJECT: ASCENSION ]

Evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm coming to you today with a proposal for a new PR initiative. You'll find a memo on your desks with details.

I'm looking for volunteers to audition for an honest-to-god superhero team. Capes, costumes, all of it. You'd have codenames and profiles in the press and all that jazz. The team would be doing community outreach, disaster relief, and light FBI SWAT type detail across the continental United States. Nothing overseas; these are not 'super-soldiers'.

POTUS is a big fan of this idea, and thinks it'll get the press and Congress off our backs for a while.

I'm inclined to agree, and I think we need to take back the narrative after an understandably anti-Project news cycle. After today, with the Way of All Flesh out here writing insane screeds, I think it's that much more important for us to put a friendly face on atavism.

Tryouts will take place throughout next week. Not everyone will be chosen, but everyone will have an opportunity to try out -- trainees included. Fair warning: anyone chosen will have to be publicly 'out' as an atavist, because even with costumes and codenames we need to be accountable to the public.

I'm open to any questions.